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more about #eurocopterec125 more comments → Curves: All this technical talk is getting me hot. And airsick. more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: OK, after some wicked Googling, I found out the company featured in the picture above. They are Uni-Fly A/S I found some videos on the YouTubes of t... more » Leandro Oliva: they should use ospreys more » bandit: 1. This has got to take more than 5 minutes of flight time to perform, so it's more than 5 gallons of gas. 2. There is no reason why there wouldn't be... more » Ryan Dearth: how much windpower does it take to run a helicopter long enough to fix a windmill? This seems a bit ironical more » strider_mt2k: Nice helicopter. Crazy ass work. I got about 100 feet up a 300 foot tower and I got bad vertigo and came right the hell back down. Aircraft? No proble... more » KyleCaballo: I look at this picture and all I see is a huge waste of money. I'll wager that the helicopter uses more energy in this maintenance procedure than tha... more » 92BuickLeSabre: Who is that guy? Bond. James, from Bond Air Services. more » NerissaJobo: You know what's unnerving? Standing underneath one of those things with the blades spinning. Then imagining the blade flying off. Scary as hell. more » danmandle: Interesting... On Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, they show how they climb up the inside of the tower. These helicopter people must have been doing some q... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: And Tom Cruise wanted us to believe flying a helicopter through a wind mill farm was dangerous. God Damn Tom Cruise. more » Kaiser-Machead: You never really appreciate how huge these things are until some of us Lilliputian Sapiens climb aboard. more » discounteggroll: that's to scale? DAMN more » -
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Helicopters Used to Fix Giant Wind Turbines
If you ever wondered how they get up there to fix those giant wind turbines, here's the answer: Helicopters. And absofreakingnuttely crazylala mechanics. Updated with crazy video. More »

